Method of and device for exhibiting decorative schemes.



J. N. WIGGIN. METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING DECORATIVE SCHEMES.APPLIOATIOI nun 3.4. 190:.

917,393. r I Patented Apf.6,1909

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- APPLICATION YILBD PEA, 1906.

Patented Apr. 6; 1909.

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ai lines 0 UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

JOSEPH N. 'IGGIN, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQR TO H. B. WIGGINS SONSCOMPAKY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING DECORATIVE SCHEMES.

To all whom it'mayrouccrn:

Be it known that I, Josnrn N. Widow, of

Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented anew and useful improvement in methods of and devices for e i be used byarchitects, builders, decorators,

tion thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make anduse the same, reference'being had to the accom )anying drawings, and tothe letters of re erence marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification.

In the drawings which show illustrations of the invention, Figure 1 is aplan view of one illustration of the invention: Fig. 2, is a section ofFig. 1, on the line .r, at; Figs. 3 and 4 are additional illustrationsof the invention;

and Figs. 5 and 6 represent additional divislon strips, somewhatenlarged, corrcspond- I in" to the arts, h, p.

imilar etteis of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

The object of this invention is a cheap, convenient and useful methodanddevicc by which the decoration plan of a room, hall, or otherapartments, can be submitted to those desiring to decorate such a)artnients; the device beta so constructed that it can be readil nzaileand which will show the color of t e woodwork, as base-board,chair-rail, pic ture molding, plate shelf, &c., in connection with theshade or coloring of the covering actually intended to be used on thewall r ceiling, or on both wall and ceiling, such as burla s and otherwell or ceiling coverings.

n the illustration of my invention shown in the drawings, sections inframes or panels of the wall, and of the ceiling of apartments areshown.

In the illustration of my invention, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, A,represents astructure which may be conveniently made of slif strongcard-board, and this may be called a face card. 011 this lace card thereare embossed or otherwise suitably disposed, warts as a, b, and c, whichrepresent the molding around the ceiling. Below this, is a portionbounded by similar (Hiimsscd parts. I. l, f, and g, which constitute them ldiw' :u'nlHnl the wall or around a porti n of it uspat-c bounded bythe parts u, b, c, and 11, l mat. on!

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 4,

lbiting decorating schemes, adapted to.'

I Patented April 6, 1909. I 1906. Serial No. $09,159.

t of the iacc card .i, and so is the space bounded by the parts d, c,f,and g. he parts a, b, c, d, c,f, and g, are to be printed or otherwisecolored to give the shade or coloring of the wood actually intended tobe used, 'as for example, ash, walnut, oak, maple, ebonized wood, &c.

ings a, b, c, may, for instance, be colored to resemble. white enamel,and the moldings, d, r, f, and y, may be colored to resemble ash wood.In this example of my invention I show the framed part of the walldivided into two portions by a separate cross )iece, h, to represent amolding or a plate shelf, also 001-- ored or printed of the shade ofwood designed board, the ends of which are to he slipped under the partsc and f, and secured in place there. ln making use of this example of myinvention a piece of the actual material dcsigucd as a cover for theceiling, say, white 1 canvas, as I5, is cut out to tit into the spacebounded by the parts a, b, c, and (l; and in order to give a neatappearance, the piece B should be a little larger than the open space,so that ilscdges will slip underthc parts a, b, c, and (I, where thepiece B is to be secured in position. in the space bounded by themoldings (I, c,f, and h, a piece of the actual material designed as acovering for that portion of the wall, say, for example, burlaps of apink shade or tint is disposed, so that its edges also pass under theparts (Z, c, f, and h; and there secured in position. In the spacebounded by the moldings e,f, h, and the baseboard 9', a piece of theactual material designed as a covering fe'. that portion of the shade,is disposed, so that its edges also pa -2' under the parts 0, j, It, andg, and there so cured in position. in this way the exact efto housed inthe decoration content latech 'llns piece, 11. IS a strip of embossecard- I feet of the decoration of the apartment. in

6D In the example shown, the moldwall, say for example, bin-laps of a.blue.

' parts d, (4, and g, con

plained. At a suitable distance below such" and the part between suchchair-rail and the baseboard, g, known as the dado, would then also befilled in with a piece of the material actually intended to be usedthere, as already explained. For very high apartments, of course, theanel bounded by the id be divided by parts, as It, to represent picturemolding, plate shelf, chair-rail, 8-0., as desired.

In cases where the material, or some of it,

intended for the parts B, C and D is frail and likely to be torn, orwhen for any other reason it is desired, the device may be strengthenedby having a supplementary card as E, Fig. 2, attached to the back of thecard A. In order to make a neat structure,

the card, E, should be of the samesize as the .card A, and suitablysecured to it, to retain its position. If desired, a depression as F maybe embossed in the supplementary card,

in order to allow for the decorative material, or a space between thetwo cards for that purpose may be provided in any other manner, as bysecuring strips of card-board between the cards A and E at their topsand bottoms and sides. p

In Fig. 3 another illustration of my invention is shown displaying amore fanciful treatment than that shown in Fig. 1. In this, A is a facecard, as in F ig. l, and moldings of a different design, i, j, and 7:,represent the frame intended to show the ceiling portion of the design.Below this is a portion bounded by suitable moldings as Z, m, n, and 0.The space incloscd by these moldings is again ivided horizontallyby asuitable molding, as Within the portion framed by the mo dings l, p, andthe upper parts of the moldings m, 7b, a piece G of the wall coveringdesigned to be used,,of say .a green color is disposed, in which anopening is cut, within which opening' a piece, Lof a pink color of thewall covering designed to be used is arranged; these pieces, G and I,being neatly fitted to each other in order to produce the best effect;and a rococo part, H, is arranged to cover u the lines of jointure ofthe covering G, I. n this illustration of my invention the portionframed by the molding p and thc' baseboard 0, and the lower parts of themold- Lugs m and n, is divided vertically to form three sections bymolding strips 9, r. Within t e space formed by the moldings m, p, q,and baseboard 0, a iece, J, of a blue tint of the wall covering intendedtobe used, is shown secured, and a similar piece, K, of the same Kind ofwall covering is shown secured within the space formed by the moldingsp, n, r, and the baseboard 0; and within the space formed by themoldings 11,9, 1, and the baseboard o, a piece, L, of the wall coveringdesigned to be used, say of a yellow tint, is shown secured.

In Fig. 4, another illustration of my invention, that is, a framedportion consisting of moldings of a design differing from those shown inFi x 1, 2,and' 3, is disp eyed. A is the face car the moldings s, t, andu, frame' the ceiling portion; the moldings, v, w, 9:, and

baseboard y, frame thewall portions; and the spaces within these may bedivided up, by moldings such as h, p, g, 1-, or others, for example,such as shown, somewhat enlarged, in

Figs. 5 and 6, and in these divided up s aces,

portions of the material actually inten ed to e used on the wall orceilin may be dis-.-

posed according to the metho described.--

It will be understood, of course, that'the framed part need not in everyinstance show a wall portion and also a ceiling portion, but that, whendesired, the ceiling portion may "be omitted, and the space from theupper portion of the card down to and including the oaseboard, may beframed to form one opening, which may then be arranged according to myinvention, to show only the wall of an apartment, divided up by suchmoldings as 2, p, q, r, Fig. 5, Fig. 6, or any others that may bedesired, and the spaces within such moldings may be filled in withpieces of such wall coverings as are actually intended to be used. Soalso, such a wall space may be framed by suitable moldings, and withinit wall coverings may be fitted in fanciful shapes with rococo orsimilar designs as suggested by the parts G, H, and I, of Fig. 3;

readily occur to;

and many others which will persons skilled in the art.

I have found that a structure consisting of the face card about 6 by 11%inches is convenient for mailing, and gives good space for ordinaryexhibitions of such color decorations, but I do not limit myself to thatsize as larger or smaller cards may be employed without departing frommy invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure bylbetters Patent, is:

1. In a device for exhibiting the decora tive schemes of rooms, inminiature, the combination with a suitable base plate provided with acentral longitudinal depression adapted to receive colored specimens ofthe wall and ceiling coverings in sections; of a face plate adapted tobe associatediwith said base plate and provided with an open ingoverlying said sections of color s mens, said' face plate bein alsoprovid d with embossed portions bor ering said opening and with embossedstrips extending across said opening above the junctures said colorsections, and said embossed bordering and strips being treated to reresent the woodwork of the room, substantially as descn 2. In a devicefor exhibiting the dccorative schemes of rooms, in miniature, the

combination with a suitable base plate pro vided with a centrallongitudinal depression adapted to receive colored specimens of the walland ceiling coverings in sections, of a face plate adapted to beassociated with said base plate and provided with an openl secondtransverse space and having an opening overlying said sections of colorspecimens, the edges of said opening extending inwardly beyond the edgeof said depression in said base plate, said lace platebeing alsoprovided with embossed portions bordering said opening and embossedstrips extending across said opening above the junclures of said colorsections, and said embossed bordering and strips being painted orgrained to represent the woodwork of the room, substantially asdescribed.

3 As an improved article of manufacture, a display card for exhibitingin miniature the interior wall decoration of a room, coinprising a lacecard having a longitudinal opening cut there n, a pair of cross strips.separating the upper section of said openin into two transverse spaces,a longitudina strip separating the spaces formed by said lowertransverse strip and the lower edge of said main opening intolongitudinal openings, said transverse strips and the ed es of saidsoaces being embossed to form mo dings tinted to correspond to themoldings to be actually employed, a piece of fabric as actually usedbeing secured behind the upper transverse space, a piece of material asactually used being disposed in said ing cut centrally terein, a secondpiece of material as actually used but of a dill'errut design or colorbeing,' secured behind said opening in said aforementioned material.

'and the joinder of said materials being covered by a rococo member orother arlistic design, and said lower longitudinal spaces being providedwith i'natcrials as actually emplrn'ed forming suitable panels, thewhole constructed and arranged to reproduce in diaf rammatic design andcolor the actual wall decorations of said room, associated with themolding eileets, substantially as described.

JOSEPH N. WIGGIN.

Witnesses:

' ANNA BUCHNER, EMMA Perms.

